Wallace Spencer Pitcher, 1919–2004
2006; Elsevier BV; Volume: 117; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0016-7878(06)80038-6
ISSN2773-0743
Autores Tópico(s)Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
ResumoWally Pitcher, who died on 4 September 2004, was born on 3 March 1919 in Acton, west London and was to become the leading and most distinguished British expert on granites and their emplacement, the geology of Donegal, and, with John Cobbing, the geology of the Peruvian batholith. He joined the Mineralogical Society in 1949 and remained a life-long member. After local schooling he became, at age 17, an apprentice assayer which introduced him to the art and science of chemical analysis, while his amateur interest in the local London Clay developed into expertise in the Tertiary fauna in the formation. He combined these aspects in studying for a part-time BSc in chemistry and geology at Chelsea College but the Second World War intervened before he graduated, and he entered the Army. His occupation as a ‘chemist’ resulted in him being considered a ‘pharmacist’ and he became a sergeant medical orderly in the RAMC from 1939 to 1944, when he was released to re-enter Chelsea College, full-time and graduate in 1947, aged 28. He joined the …
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